If in doubt, if you have any questions or worries about anything, please ask!
- this course, your class, and your instructor are a safe space and here to help
- if I don’t know an answer—I’m merely human—I’ll help you to find someone who does
- this is a community of care
Email:
Office hours:
- My office is in Buchanan Tower, on the 7th floor (!), no. 728
- My office hours are on Monday from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
I’m often also there on other days and at other times, so if the door is ajar or open please come in. (Also, I have dark chocolate.)
If you can’t make it then and wish to make an appointment to see me, please email me so that we can figure out a mutually-convenient time.
I’m sharing some general useful resources below: openly-accessible freely-available information from the University. I use these resources a lot in the advising side of my work, you might also find them helpful, and they could also help you to help someone else. There are many people here at UBC who can help; even if it is « just » talking to someone with whom you feel comfortable and whom you trust, who will listen to you, that alone is already a vital service.
The same goes for any need to talk and to find support, whether something has happened to you or to someone you know, and also if nothing has happened but you worry that it might. Even if sometimes this seems like an overwhelmingly large university, and impersonal through its size and complexity: UBC is a compassionate caring community, made up of individual human beings.
QUICK NAVIGATION:
- In immediate proximity + your AMS
- UBC Academic advising
- UBC Student support, including how to help other students
- Stress, anxiety, sleep, well-being, exam preparation
- Safety, accidents, emergencies
IN IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY + YOUR AMS
Undergraduate residential advisers, and other student leaders who have had bystander & ally training
Neighbours, friends, and classmates
Faculty and other instructors (graduate-student teaching assistants, for example): you see us a lot, and we are here for you
YOUR AMS
- Speakeasy: AMS Nest 1314
Tue: 12.00-13.00 & 15.30-16.30
Wed: 11:00-17.00
Thu: 12:00-13:00
+ by appointment - Sexual Assault Support Centre: offer crisis and emotional support: AMS Nest 3127
Monday-Friday 10:00-5:00
(From 11 October: Monday-Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.) - Resource groups: Colour Connected, Pride, Social Justice Centre, Women’s Centre
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Through talking with them about academic matters during your time here, you may have already formed relationships with individuals with whom you would consider talking about other matters.
Academic advising at the departmental level may be another set of people to talk to, and again as with advising at the Faculty or School level, this is not just about a narrow sense of immediately academic matters: for example, here are the Academic Advisers in French, Hispanic & Italian Studies; students regularly talk to us about many things, all of which (and pastoral care) form part of any individual’s whole well-being.
UBC FACULTY OF ARTS
- Arts Student Support: students.arts.ubc.ca/student-support
- Arts Academic Advising: students.arts.ubc.ca/advising
Buchanan D111
Monday – Friday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
(usually afternoon (1-4 p.m.) = drop-in, extended hours at the beginning of term, further details follow below)
Closed weekends and statutory holidaysThe Arts Academic Advising Office provides drop-in advising, Monday to Friday (1-4pm) in Buchanan D-111, answers brief questions via email or you can ask a quick general question on the Arts Facebook page.
Email: Please include your student number
Domestic Students – arts.advisor@ubc.ca
International Students – arts.international@ubc.ca
Aboriginal Students – arts.aboriginal@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.4028 *For current UBC students
IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS…
- Academic advising for all Faculties and Schools (not just the Faculty of Arts)
STUDENT SUPPORT
LOOK AFTER ONE ANOTHER
ARTS & UBC STUDENT SUPPORT
- Arts Student Support: students.arts.ubc.ca/student-support
- UBC Student Services: students.ubc.ca
- UBC Wellness Services
Barber Learning Centre 183
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday 10:00-5:00
Tuesday 10:00-4:00
ACCESS & DIVERSITY
- Access & Diversity: students.ubc.ca/about/access
- Brock Hall 1203
- Email : access.diversity@ubc.ca
- ‘Phone: 604.822.5844
THE GREEN FOLDER
- The Green Folder : Student services > Assisting students in distress
= a very useful resource for faculty and for students, as everyone plays a role in supporting student wellbeing: we are all one community - Step 1: Observe
- Steps 2 and 3: Reflect and respond
- Step 4: Use Early Alert
- Talking to a student in distress
- Where students can go for help
- Encouraging a student to seek support
- downloadable PDF
- Student Services – Faculty & Staff Resources > Early Alert
= a one-stop shop for help, that brings together all of UBC’s support services under one virtual roof. Faculty and other instructors may use this to refer you for help and expert advice. (We’re all fabulous but we’re not superhuman: yes, there are limits to academic faculty expertise and abilities!) - Early Alert > Information for students
- The faculty version, FYI: because all this information is open to all, and it’s always good to see all perspectives in order to understand something better
AND HERE’S EVEN MORE UBC SUPPORT, SERVICES, RESOURCES …
- Resources for students c/o UBC Student Services have information and offer help:
Academic matters
Accommodation for disability
Career
Discrimination and harassment
Fair treatment
Financial concerns
Health
International student matters
Legal advice
Mental and physical wellbeing
Personal safety and security
Sexualised violence
Student-led programs
Wellbeing - the Office of the Ombudsperson for Students
→ their overview
→ fairness info sheet, fairness toolkits & other resources
→ their FAQs
STRESS, ANXIETY, SLEEP, WELL-BEING, EXAM PREPARATION
UBC resources for stress-relief for students
- Stress: http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/stress
- Anxiety: http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/anxiety
- Sleep: http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/sleep (I cannot over-emphasise the importance of sleep, for general health as well as for brains & exams; UBC and research colleagues in psychology and neuroscience do too. It’s not just me.)
- Nutrition: http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/nutrition-and-food
- Physical activity and recreation: http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/physical-activity-and-recreation
Including events on campus:
UBC links:
- UBC Learning Commons: in the main menu, see especially the pages in
“(tutoring and) studying” and
“student toolkits” - exam preparation (via UBC CTLT), see especially:
- learning & memory (UBC Learning Commons)
- exam preparation & writing (SFU)
- overcoming exam anxiety (SFU)
SAFETY, ACCIDENTS, EMERGENCIES
- Student Services > assisting students in distress
- UBC Green Folder, for assisting students in distress
- 604.822.2222 = UBC Campus Security
- 604.822.4444 = Campus First Aid
- 911 = emergency services (ambulance, fire, police): on the UBC campus, call UBC Campus Security first (for practical reasons: the fastest response)
Images: by the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005). For more of his works, see the Fondation Folon and Folon-art.